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PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) - Olympique Marseille midfielder Benoit Cheyrou has been ruled out of Saturday's Ligue 1 home game against Bastia on Saturday, the club said on Thursday. Cheyrou, who picked up a thigh injury in OM's 1-0 win at Lorient, joins defender Rod Fanni on the injury list. Marseille, who are second in the standings nine points adrift of leaders Paris St Germain with four games left, will also be without suspended striker Andre Ayew. (Reporting by Julien Pretot;...

PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Zlatan Ibrahimovic was again the chief tormentor as French champions Paris St Germain won 3-0 at Bastia to open a provisional 11-point lead at top of the Ligue 1 on Saturday. Ibrahimovic opened the scoring with a powerful header into the top corner in the sixth minute, before his clever backheel set up Ezequiel Lavezzi for the second goal 13 minutes later. The Sweden international set up Lavezzi again for the third goal two minutes from...

PARIS (Reuters) - Bastia have been barred from playing at home for three games and given a suspended two-point deduction after supporters of the Ligue 1 club were involved in a series of violent incidents, the French League (LFP) said on Friday. The club have already served one match of the ban when they beat basement side Nancy in Gueugnon, eastern France, last month after they were banned from using their own ground pending the ruling. Promoted Bastia, 13th in the...

PARIS (Reuters) - Colombian James Rodriguez scored both goals in Monaco's 2-0 victory at Bastia on Saturday, keeping them in contention for the Ligue 1 title, five points behind leaders Paris St Germain. Rodriguez, who delivered another brilliant performance in a playmaking position, put Monaco ahead on the stroke of halftime with a superb free-kick. He completed his first double for the side in the 77th minute following a lightening counter-attack. Monaco moved up...

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - Wahbi Khazri scored a goal and created two as Olympique Lyon suffered another blow in the French title race with a 4-1 loss at lowly Bastia on Saturday. The 22-year-old Khazri set up Florian Thauvin for the opener on the stroke of halftime following a 50-metre run then neatly put Anthony Modeste through in the box in the 56th after Lisandro Lopez had levelled two minutes earlier. Thauvin scored his second just after the hour mark following a...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Sunday Mba, who scored the goal that won the African Nations Cup for Nigeria earlier this year, left Warri Wolves for French team Bastia on Thursday. The 24-year-old has signed a one-year deal, the Ligue 2 club told reporters in Corsica. Mba, who was on target in the 40th minute of the 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso in the Nations Cup final in Johannesburg in February, cost Bastia a fee of one million euros ($1.32 million). ($1 - 0.7562...

PARIS (Reuters) - Lille reached the semi-finals of the League Cup with a 3-0 win over Bastia on Wednesday but the match had to be suspended for 15 minutes in the first half after an assistant referee was hit by a missile thrown from the crowd. The players were taken off the pitch with Lille leading 1-0 six minutes before the break as the official received attention. He was unhurt and continued in his role. Gianni Bruno opened the scoring for Lille in the 10th minute, firing...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Sunday Mba, who scored the goal that won the African Nations Cup for Nigeria earlier this year, left Warri Wolves for French team Bastia on Thursday. The 24-year-old has signed a one-year deal, the Ligue 2 club told reporters in Corsica. Mba, who was on target in the 40th minute of the 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso in the Nations Cup final in Johannesburg in February, cost Bastia a fee of one million euros ($1.32 million). ($1 - 0.7562...

PARIS (Reuters) - Olympique Marseille took a giant step towards a Champions League spot on Saturday as Andre-Pierre Gignac's double earned them a 2-1 home win against Bastia and delayed arch rivals Paris St Germain's Ligue 1 title celebrations. Second-placed OM have 67 points with three games left and trail PSG, who play their game in hand against Valenciennes on Sunday, by six points. Victory would effectively give PSG their first French league title since 1994 as they have a...

(Updates with venue of Nancy game final par) PARIS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A Bastia official has started a hunger strike after the French club were barred from playing at home until further notice because of a series of violent incidents, the Ligue 1 side said on Friday. The disciplinary commission of the French League (LFP) imposed the sanction on Thursday after fans threw a barrage of fireworks outside the Furiani stadium in Corsica on Wednesday as...

PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) - Olympique Marseille midfielder Benoit Cheyrou has been ruled out of Saturday's Ligue 1 home game against Bastia on Saturday, the club said on Thursday. Cheyrou, who picked up a thigh injury in OM's 1-0 win at Lorient, joins defender Rod Fanni on the injury list. Marseille, who are second in the standings nine points adrift of leaders Paris St Germain with four games left, will also be without suspended striker Andre Ayew. (Reporting by Julien Pretot;...